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Donald Trump faces wall of opponent as he returns to Scotland

As billionaire arrives in UK to unveil his second Scottish golf course, opponents are still fighting him over the first one

When Susie and John Munro bought their cottage 35 years ago they had a clear view of Girdle Ness lighthouse in Aberdeen 10 miles to the south and of the rugged, towering, dunes which became their childrens playground. But all they can see now is an earth wall, which was built by Donald Trump for the worlds greatest golf course, to conceal their home from sight.

The berm, which reaches four metres in height and sits opposite the Munros front door, solely blocks out the horizon and view of the sea. A hefty locked gate blocks the public road they once used to reach the beach. In heavy rain, they say, the road now floods. At periods, they say Trumps security staff sit in 4×4 vehicles watching their movements.

He has just ruined it for us here. He has just hemmed us in, Susie Munro said. He just did what he pleased and the council merely turned a blind eye. And in a reference to his presidential campaign pledge to deal with immigration, she tells softly: Mr Trump likes his walls.

He touches down at Prestwick on Thursday before unveiling his second Scottish golf course at Turnberry in Ayrshire the following day.When he flies to Aberdeen on Saturday and heads north up the coast to Balmedie, the Munros will be displaying a Mexican flag in a symbolic protest at his pledge in the US presidential race to wall off Mexico.

In parallel with protests planned by anti-racist campaigners at Turnberry on Friday, David and Moira Milne are already flying a Mexican flag from the roof of their home, a former coastguard station overlooking Trumps clubhouse.

So too is Michael Forbes, the obstinate quarryman who became Trumps most well known foe after the property tycoon described him as a humiliation for refusing to sell to him his pigsty of a home which sits in the middle of the Trump estate.

Salmond was among the signatories of a petition recommending the UK government to ban Trump from entry to the UK after his outburst on Mexican migrants last year. Ford believes US voters need to learn from Scotlands experience. The human appears to treat the whole of life as a advertising stunt, Ford said. He appears to have no impulse control. I now insure a campaign in the US, which is again characterised by ridiculous affirms and ridiculous promises. And again theyre being believed by so many people. Our experience is that they shouldnt be believed.

But Trumps investment in Aberdeenshire could yet pay off. Due to be approved later this year, the councils draft development scheme will formally recognise the planning approving Trump won in 2008, designating the coastal dunes, farmland and woods he owns as set aside for his original masterplan. That stimulates it far easier for Trump to build his new homes and timeshare complex he can create the money.

Vic Henderson, 87, a retired groundsman who worked for the previous owned of the Menie estates and live in a terraced cottage overlooking the course, has a framed thank-you letter from Trump on his wall: Henderson wrote to a local paper defending the resort in 2007. When I first came here, there was just 40 acres of windblown sand between me and the sea, Henderson said. Its an absolutely wonderful course. Its tremendous and, as for the carry-on and people from away down south saying it would disturb the wildlife, theres more wildlife than ever. Its good.